There have been a few articles lately in Classic/Heritage Commercial mag’s etc reference Rush Green Motors, lots of memory jogging photo’s. A while back Steve(Jakey) & myself with my 10 year old son went on a days-jolly to Rush Green, I took a fare few pics so thought its time I sat down for a couple of hours on a quiet Sunday & posted them on here for anyone to enjoy. I will try & put them in some order Tankers/BRS etc, but some may just be hap-hazard, where possible I tried to get Company names/Reg No’s/Fleet No’s etc, but anyone who has been to Rush Green knows sometimes you have to climb up/over/under stuff & just get the best shot possible! If anyone wishes to take a pic & move it to another thread for reference/comparison etc then feel free, I just take pics for myself & others to enjoy. Regards Chris
Having worked for Air Products out of Didcot for 20 years this year, covering 2 spells, I pleased to find this old A.P. AEC Mandator.
Chris I went in over 10 yrs ago before the cctv and fencing ,infact I took a load of fencing & gates down from Iae about 2 yrs since ,on my first visit I parked up the road and wondered in with out seeing anyone ,another time I took a mate we had all on to escape with out buying something he was like Aunty wainwright !
Punchy Dan:
Chris I went in over 10 yrs ago before the cctv and fencing ,infact I took a load of fencing & gates down from Iae about 2 yrs since ,on my first visit I parked up the road and wondered in with out seeing anyone ,another time I took a mate we had all on to escape with out buying something he was like Aunty wainwright !
Steve knows the Guvnor there so we had permission, but we just had to keep an eye out for the single wandering Rottweiller, who we were told could be “A bit of a Bugger” , the others were in Run outside the office, but the 1 liked to go & walk himself!!!
Various Fuel Trailers/etc, the Mobil ! was of special interest to me as my Dad did 23 years on Mobil.
Chris did you see a 8 wheeler ergo tipper with Bown n shaw on the door from Chesterfield ?
Punchy Dan:
Chris did you see a 8 wheeler ergo tipper with Bown n shaw on the door from Chesterfield ?
Struth Dan, I can’t remember where I went on Friday . We might have done, no doubt did the amount of time we were there, but there are so many old names there your brain goes into melt-down It might be in ! of my pics?
Ford C series?
Cracking photos Chris,thanks.